An electrical engineer, his homemaker wife, and their software engineer son were killed in a tragic road accident on national highway-19 near Burdwan town on Wednesday afternoon.
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An electrical engineer, his homemaker wife, and their software engineer son were killed in a tragic road accident on national highway-19 near Burdwan town on Wednesday afternoon.
The family’s car, reportedly travelling at high speed, rammed into the rear of a gas tanker at the Jyotram area after the tanker came to an abrupt halt. The impact was severe, killing all three occupants on the spot, police said.
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The driver of the car, Saheb Munshi, survived the crash but sustained critical injuries. He was rushed to Burdwan Medical College and Hospital, where his condition is stated to be serious.
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The deceased were identified as Sheikh Mohammed Murshed (57), an electrical engineer employed with the Steel Authority of India’s Durgapur Steel Plant, his wife Rozina, a homemaker, and their son, a software engineer working with a private firm in Pune, Maharashtra. The family resided in the SAIL Cooperative locality in City Centre, Durgapur.
According to neighbour Ranjan Tewari, Murshed and his wife were accompanying their son to Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose International Airport, as he was scheduled to fly to Mumbai later in the evening.
Murshed’s 80-year-old mother, Nasima, a former employee of the Durgapur Steel Plant, was inconsolable on receiving the news. “I lost my husband 30 years ago. Now I have lost my son, grandson and daughter-in-law. I am shattered,” she said.
The family originally hailed from Jangipur in Murshidabad district and had been settled in Durgapur for nearly six decades.
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